Amiga Games Incorporated and the rights to redistribute over 300 classic IPs have been purchased by a Los Angeles distribution company for a cool half million, who plan to re-release some of our favourite games on "smartphones, modern game consoles, PCs, and tablets."

As a dyed-in-the-wool Amiga fanboy, I'm more than a little excited about this.

"AGI builds on the "Amiga" brand and technology to create new revenue from publisher's dormant game libraries," reads a statement from the Writer's Group Film Corporation sent to us today. "AGI resurrects classic Amiga games and other classic titles, by giving them new life on today's gaming platforms: smartphones, PCs, consoles, and tablets. Older gamers can replay favorites from the past, while a new generation of gamers can experience these excellent titles as fresh content."

"The 300+ gaming titles to be distributed by Amiga Games are available to the company under existing licensing agreements with various intellectual property owners."

Writers' Group plans to make some more specific announcements about their new acquisition over the coming weeks, presumably once they've waded through a few more legal shenanigans with copyright holders (as we understand it, AGI has distribution rights but doesn't actually own the IPs in question). We really, really want some compilations please... though I daresay that iOS port jobs will probably be the first port (heh) of call. More as we hear it.

What classic Amiga titles would you like to play again? Personally, I hope that K240, Walker and Uridium 2 make the cut.

If they're identical to the original games then no thanks, to be honest. If they're updated then I'm interested - but still not completely sold.
I largely try to avoid retro gaming now. It invariably disappoints. Loved Speedball 2 back in the day, but couldn't get into it on the xbox - it just looked so dated.

I don't want to be that guy but graphics are important - and whilst the graphics were okay at the time they just look awful now. Yes gameplay is the most important factor - but I maintain nice graphics do improve your gaming experience (and the high number of HD remakes lately indicates I'm not totally alone in that thinking).

I've had the same problem with most retro gaming in the last decade or so. I keep buying old games that I loved as a kid, and I keep getting disappointed by them.
In recent years I've bought "classic collection" bundles and the like from Sega, Midway, Taito, Capcom, and so on - bundles full of games that were fantastic in their day. But their day, sadly, is long past.
(Of course, if they ever do a HD remake of FF7 I'm all over that.)

Personal opinion, of course, and I do appreciate that a LOT of people love playing their old games. And clearly I like the idea - as I keep buying them. But they just don't do it for me...

Brutal football, sensible soccer, chaos engine, (didn't they release that on PC and some dodgy consoles? forget CE2 tho as it was pants), I could probably sit here all day reminiscing now :\

Thinking about it though, lots of the games I want have probably been released on other formats. Where does that leave them?

They still have the rights to distribute the Amiga version. The IP owners would not have foreseen demand for distributing the game on other devices wrapped up in an emulator, so this wouldn't have been taken into account when writing the contract.

It looks as though they've had some sort of exclusivity deal going on with BlackBerry. They've been heavily promoting the platform over the past year on their website and FB... right up until this announcement which makes no mention of BB at all...